Biology:Bocagea
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Short description: Genus of plants
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Magnoliids |
| Order: | Magnoliales |
| Family: | Annonaceae |
| Genus: | Bocagea A.St.-Hil. |
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Bocagea is a genus of plants in the family Annonaceae. It comprises four species distributed in Brazil .[1][2] Augustin Saint-Hilaire, the French botanist who first formally described the genus, named it after Josephi Mariae de Souza du Bocage, who he said beautifully translated a poem about flowers into Portuguese and illustrated it.
All species of Bocagea are rare and are at least endangered.[2]
Description
Bocagea are shrubs or small trees with two rows of petals, 3 interior and 3 exterior, and 6 stamens.[3]
Species
There are currently four described species in Bocagea:[2]
- Bocagea asymmetrica Mello-Silva & J.C.Lopes
- Bocagea longepedunculata Mart.
- Bocagea moeniana Mello-Silva & J.C.Lopes
- Bocagea viridis A.St.-Hil.
References
- ↑ "Bocagea A.St.-Hil.". The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. n.d.. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1981-1.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Mello-Silva, Renato; Lopes, Jenifer De Carvalho (2020-12-15). "The Brazilian Atlantic Forest genus Bocagea (Annonaceae) revisited, with two new species" (in en). Phytotaxa 475 (4): 279–288. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.475.4.5. ISSN 1179-3163. https://www.biotaxa.org/Phytotaxa/article/view/phytotaxa.475.4.5.
- ↑ Saint-Hilaire, Augustin (1825) (in French, Latin). Flora Brasiliae meridionalis. 1. Paris: Apud A. Belin. p. 41. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/98641.
Wikidata ☰ Q8249057 entry
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